A Tour Twenty Years Ago"Hampshire Independent" Office, 1860 - 44 Seiten |
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admirably ascended basalt bath beneath Berserkers Bolli butter cave CHAPTER Clergyman cliff cloud cold colour columns Darwin descended Digwell's dinner distant dome encamped England eyes Eyrik's Yokul fatigue feet fell Fiordh ford the river gallop Gerdrun glaciers grass Heat of water height horses hot springs Hvam Hvita Iceland Parliament Iceland ponies Jonson journey Kalmanstunga Key of Iceland Kjastan knew lake level plain look Lord Lodbrog M'Diarmid Melar miles morning mountain mounted never night Norse Norway Odin Parlia Parthenon party pitch our tent plaid pleasant plumage ponies poor Digwell precipice remember Reykholt Reykjavik rock rode rose saddle scorn seemed seen shook skeir Skjaldbreid slept smoke Snaefell Snorro snow snowy hills spot Stapi steep stones stopped Strokr Sybarite thee Thingwalla Thor thou thump took traveller turf Umbra valley walls of lava Whip wild swans wind
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Seite 16 - A dungeon horrible, on all sides round As one great furnace flamed, yet from those flames No light, but rather darkness visible Served only to discover sights of woe, Regions of sorrow, doleful shades, where peace And rest can never dwell, hope never comes That comes to all; but torture without end Still urges, and a fiery deluge, fed With ever-burning sulphur unconsumed...
Seite 42 - WHAT needs my Shakespeare for his honoured bones The labour of an age in piled stones ? Or that his hallowed reliques should be hid Under a star-ypointing pyramid ? Dear son of memory, great heir of fame, What need'st thou such weak witness of thy name ? Thou in our wonder and astonishment Hast built thyself a livelong monument.
Seite 9 - To abstract the mind from all local emotion would be impossible, if it were endeavoured, and would be foolish, if it were possible. Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses ; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings.
Seite 3 - In dull fact he was an excellent citizen, a householder, paying rates and taxes, an affectionate husband, and the good father of a family ; but in the dream, the fancy — " the spirit, Master Shallow " — he was a Berserker, a Norse pirate, ploughing the seas in his dragon-shaped barque, making his trusty falchion ring on the casques of his enemies, slaying, pillaging, burning, ravishing, and thus gratifying a laudable taste for adventure.
Seite 3 - Next to him I will introduce Mr. Darwin, 8 a really celebrated personage. He had written a learned book on northern antiquities, in recompense of which a Scandinavian potentate created him a Knight of the second class of the Order of the Walrus, the ribbon of which illustrious Order was suspended across his brawny shoulders. Of Herculean height and strength, with his long black beard descending to his waist, he resembled a Viking of old, and such I conceive he at times supposed himself to be.
Seite 10 - Umbra' penned the following: 'This is the mysterious Tintron, the puzzle of geologists, the Lava Spout, the only one known to exist in the world, like unto the blackened stump of a tree, ten feet or so in height, through which the fluid flame is supposed to have once soared in air, as water from the hose of a fire-engine.
Seite 3 - ... descending to his waist, he resembled a Viking of old, and such I conceive he at times supposed himself to be. In fact, so deeply was he imbued with the spirit of antiquity, that a continual antagonism between the past and the present, or rather, I should say, between the imaginary and the real existed in his breast. He was two gentlemen at once. Though a sincerely religious man, still I cannot help suspecting that in his heart of hearts he looked on Christianity as a somewhat parvenu creed,...
Seite 3 - M'Diarmid, like Crichton, did all things well, being a first-rate sportsman, a good draughtsman, was a follower of science, and an author to boot ' He possessed qualities of coolness, deliberation and courage, that would have fitted him to be the leader 'of a party bound on an expedition far more adventurous than our own. 'He was, moreover, a pleasant companion, but lest it should be thought that I am describing a too perfect character, I will admit that he cherished two superstitions. First, he...
Seite 3 - ... lest it should be thought that I am describing a too perfect character, I will admit that he cherished two superstitions. First he believed in Ossian — secondly, he held it as an article of faith, not to be doubted, that his tent was completely waterproof. Next to him I will introduce Mr. Darwin, a really celebrated personage. He had written a learned book on Northern Antiquities, in recompense of which a Scandinavian Potentate created him a Knight of the second class of the Order of the Walrus,...
Seite 5 - ... a College at Cambridge, and, unfortunately for him, smitten with a taste for Geology, which had impelled him to come to Iceland. He was a tall, thin man, and always carried a hammer to aid him in his favourite pursuit. He also brought an ancient military saddle, which an ancestor of his had used in the Duke of Marlborough's campaigns. On an Iceland pony it seemed somewhat misplaced. Besides his zeal for science, Digwell was passionately fond of poetry, and for hours together would repeat verses,...